AI programmes. Defined scope, known price, clear outcome.
BigStep works in structured programmes, not open-ended retainers. Each one comes with a defined scope, a price range, and a clear outcome. You pick the right fit, we scope it for your situation in one call, and work starts.
Start free with a 90-minute working session. Or go straight to the programme you need.
How pricing works
Every programme shows a price range. That range reflects what we know before we have spoken with you. After one call, we give you a single number for your specific situation. That number is what goes on the invoice.
What moves the price within a range varies by programme. The main factors are how many systems are in scope, how much existing data or infrastructure there is to work with, and how complex the setup is.
Find your starting point
Not everyone starts from the same place. Some need to understand their situation before building anything. Others are ready to build right now. Use the groupings below to find where to start. If you are not sure, book a free Possibilities Session. It is 90 minutes and costs nothing.
Start
Two free programmes to understand where you stand. No cost, no commitment.
Use them if you are new to AI, if you want to see how a live system is actually performing, or if you just need a clear starting point.
Diagnose
Before you build anything, you need to understand where the opportunity is, what the gaps are, or what is already broken. Diagnose programmes run for one to three weeks and end with a report, a score, or a roadmap. No code is written.
Right for you if you want clarity before you commit to building anything.
Build
Short, fixed-scope sprints to get working AI in your hands. Not a plan to build something. The thing itself. At the end of a Build sprint, you have something you can use.
Right for you if you know what you want and want it done in a few weeks.
Launch
For teams that have built something and are ready to take it to production. Launch programmes handle the infrastructure, the evaluation, the scaling, and the handover. This is where prototypes become products.
Right for you if you have something working and need to take it to production.
Transform
Programmes that change how your engineering team works. Not what they ship this quarter. How they build things going forward.
Right for you if you want your team to build differently, not just ship one more thing.
Embed
BigStep engineers work inside your team, on your codebase, at your pace. Available as a full-stack pod, a standard pod, a single embedded engineer, or a structured eight-week sprint.
Right for you if you want BigStep engineers working inside your team on an ongoing basis.
Run
Once your platform is live, we keep it running. Monitoring, incident response, and a monthly health report. This is not a development retainer. It is operations and nothing else.
Right for you if your platform is live and you need someone keeping an eye on it.
What sets us apart
You know the price before work starts.
Every programme is scoped and priced after one call. On fixed-scope programmes, the number does not change mid-engagement. We absorb overruns, not you.
Our engineers have shipped AI in production.
Not demos. Not proofs of concept. Working systems handling real traffic and real failures at companies across the US, UK, and Europe.
Senior engineers only.
There are no junior developers on our projects billed at senior rates. The person scoping the work is the person doing it.
We say no when it is not the right fit.
If a programme cannot succeed in your situation, we say so on the first call.
You pay for the outcome, not the hours.
Every programme has defined deliverables. The price is for those deliverables, not for the time it takes us to produce them.
All programmes
| Programme | Tier | Duration | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| StartView Start programmes | |||
| Possibilities Session | TierStart | Duration90 min | PriceFree |
| Agent Reliability Scorecard | TierStart | Duration60 min | PriceFree |
| DiagnoseView Diagnose programmes | |||
| AI Opportunity Sprint | TierDiagnose | Duration2–3 weeks | Price$18K–$30K |
| AI Reliability Audit | TierDiagnose | Duration2 weeks | Price$18K–$30K |
| Agent Opportunity Blueprint | TierDiagnose | Duration1 week | Price$8K–$15K |
| SDLC AI Maturity Audit | TierDiagnose | Duration2 weeks | Price$15K–$28K |
| Inference Cost Teardown | TierDiagnose | Duration2 weeks | Price$18K–$30K |
| BuildView Build programmes | |||
| AI Feature Sprint | TierBuild | Duration3 weeks | Price$20K–$35K |
| Document Intelligence Sprint | TierBuild | Duration4 weeks | Price$30K–$45K |
| Agent Prototype Sprint | TierBuild | Duration2–3 weeks | Price$25K–$45K |
| Eval Harness Sprint | TierBuild | Duration4 weeks | Price$35K–$55K |
| Private AI Deployment Sprint | TierBuild | Duration4 weeks | Price$40K–$70K |
| AI Red Team Sprint | TierBuild | Duration2–3 weeks | Price$25K–$45K |
| LaunchView Launch programmes | |||
| Vertical Agent Launch | TierLaunch | Duration4–6 weeks | Price$35K–$60K |
| Agent Scale Launch | TierLaunch | Duration6–12 weeks | Price$80K–$200K |
| Claude-Powered Product Launch | TierLaunch | Duration4 weeks | Price$35K–$60K |
| TransformView Transform programmes | |||
| 10X Engineer Programme | TierTransform | Duration8–12 weeks | Price$50K–$120K |
| Claude Code Rollout Programme | TierTransform | Duration6 weeks | Price$30K–$50K |
| EmbedView Embed programmes | |||
| AI Engineering Pod — Standard | TierEmbed | Duration3-month minimum | Price$35K–$60K a month |
| AI Engineering Pod — Full Stack | TierEmbed | Duration3-month minimum | Price$55K–$90K a month |
| Embedded AI Engineer (FDE) | TierEmbed | Duration3–12 months | Price$20K–$50K a month |
| FDE Sprint | TierEmbed | Duration8 weeks | Price$40K–$100K |
| RunView Run programmes | |||
| Managed Services — Essential | TierRun | DurationMonthly | Price$5K–$10K a month |
| Managed Services — Growth | TierRun | DurationMonthly | Price$10K–$22K a month |
Prices are confirmed after a discovery call.
Fair Questions
Yes. The price range narrows to a single number after your discovery call, and that is the number on the invoice. We do not adjust fixed-scope programmes mid-engagement. Embed and Run are billed monthly, with a named team and a defined scope.
No. Most clients do, because it tells both of us what the right next step is. But if you already know what you need, you can go straight to any programme.
Get in touch. Most situations map to an existing programme. If yours does not, we will say so on the first call rather than forcing a fit.
A 90-minute working session with a senior BigStep facilitator. We map your workflows, identify where AI can help, and send you a two-page written summary. No pitch. No prep required from you.
For Embed programmes, yes. You set the brief and our engineers work inside your team. For everything else, we work to a defined scope.
Yes. Our programmes are built for enterprise technology teams in the US, and we work with clients in the UK, Europe and elsewhere.
Start with something free
The Possibilities Session is a 90-minute working session with a senior BigStep facilitator. You tell us what you are building or what problem you are trying to solve. We come back with a two-page summary of where AI can help and where it cannot. No cost. No obligation.
Already know what you need?
If you know the programme you want, or if your situation is specific enough that a session would just slow you down, get in touch directly.